Our Daily Literacy Review Slides are a dynamic and effective tool for enhancing memory, retention, and learning. By incorporating principles of spaced practice, interleaved practice, and retrieval practice, these daily reviews offer a comprehensive approach to reinforcing previously taught literacy content. Great as practice for the Common Assessment Activities (CAA’s). A great companion to…
This resource provides follow-up activities and home-learning tasks for a new (March 2026) Ready to Read Phonics Plus Tupu Level reader: A Theme Tune found in New Zealand schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Texts Covered in this Resource:…
Our Daily Maths Review Slides are a dynamic and effective tool for enhancing memory, retention, and learning. By incorporating principles of spaced practice, interleaved practice, and retrieval practice, these daily reviews offer a comprehensive approach to reinforcing previously taught mathematics content. A great companion to your structured maths programme. Aligns with the refreshed New…
Elevate your Phase 3 (Year 7-8) Writing to Inform: Explanation writing instruction with our comprehensive Writing to Inform: Explanation Writing Activities. This all-inclusive resource pack equips educators with the essential tools for teaching explanation writing. This writing resource is designed to support teachers to teach Writing to Inform: Explanations, from Phase 3 (During year…
This colourful set of Grammar (Parts of Speech) and Punctuation Posters helps students to understand the building blocks of sentences. Laminate these and create an engaging and useful classroom display. These sentence structure activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR). This resource is a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. Activities link directly to…
Check out our set of reading response activities for the New Zealand Junior Journal 65 – Exploring Movement. Our NZ Junior Journal 65 Activities and Lesson Plans pack has everything you need to dive into the story and articles within this publication. Both a paper-based and digital option are included so you can use this…
These activities have been created to specifically support the teaching and learning of five consonant digraphs. The consonant digraphs included in this set are: ch, –ck, sh, th, -ng With initial modelling and scaffolding, these activities are intended to be completed independently to build students’ skills in following instructions, fine motor skills and stamina…
Explore tools to measure the weather with these differentiated reading passages and science activities. This weather pack includes an informational non-fiction passage, reading and vocabulary questions, and higher-order thinking tasks. This resource features a full digital pack – perfect for Google Classroom or Microsoft One Drive. These activities are great for your guided reading…
Explore how meteorologists forecast the weather with these differentiated reading passages and science activities. This weather pack includes an informational non-fiction passage, reading and vocabulary questions, and higher-order thinking tasks. This resource features a full digital pack – perfect for Google Classroom or Microsoft One Drive. These activities are great for your guided reading…
This colourful set of 32 Synonym Tasks Cards helps students to understand the meanings of words and how words function in sentences. Print and laminate these synonym task cards for regular use! These semantics activities align with the Science of Reading (SoR) and are a practical addition to your structured literacy programme. This set of…
This resource provides follow-up activities and home-learning tasks for five new (June 2026) Ready to Read Phonics Plus readers found in New Zealand schools. An engaging format is used to develop your students’ sense of agency and independence – perfect for your reading rotations. Texts Covered in this resource: Sam and Dad – Kākano Fun…
The Persuasive Speech Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that guides students through writing and delivering compelling persuasive speeches. This toolkit simplifies complex concepts, making speech writing accessible and engaging for all learners. How It Works: This toolkit provides a structured, explicit, step-by-step approach to teaching persuasive speech writing. It breaks down the process…
Engaging Reading Response Activities for NZ Junior Journal 68 Explore our NZ Junior Journal 68 Activities and Lesson Plans, designed to bring the stories and articles in this publication to life! This comprehensive resource offers both paper-based and digital options, making it perfect for classroom use or distance learning. The texts in Junior Journal 68…
This resource has been produced to help students consolidate the skill of making inferences. Build verbal reasoning skills. This Inference Skills Reading Resource includes: Three inference skills posters. Five inference skills question worksheets for use with any fiction text. 16 inference skills task cards for use with any fiction text. Inferencing is a…
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